Effective practice with e-assessment
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Effective Practice with e-Assessment is the third in a series of JISC publications on the skillful use of e-learning in 21st century practice in a technology-rich context. In contrast to the preceding guides in the series – Effective Practice with e-Learning and Innovative Practice with e-Learning – the focus of this publication is on practice in a broader institutional sense, including the potential impact of e-assessment on learning and teaching.
Through a sequence of case studies, Effective Practice with e-Assessment provides an overview of current e-assessment activity in further and higher education in the UK. In doing so, it does not cover in any depth the technical developments that underpin e-assessment. Its aim is to illustrate how the work of researchers, tools and technical standards developers has combined with initiatives from individual colleges and university departments to advance our understanding of what is effective practice in relation to e-assessment.
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Effective assessment in a digital age
A new guide in the JISC Effective Practice series is being produced to complement the JISC guide to e-assessment, Effective Practice with e-Assessment (JISC 2007) and the more broadly based guide to technology-enhanced learning, Effective practice in a digital age (JISC 2009).
Aims and audiences
The role of Effective Assessment in a Digital Age is to support practitioners and middle managers in higher and further education in exploring how digital technologies can add value to their assessment and feedback practice. The primary audience includes established teachers, those coming into teaching from a research background, and those undergoing initial teacher training in post-16 education. Secondary audiences are likely to be those who work to support change within an institution – ie curriculum managers, quality enhancement teams, staff developers and e-learning coordinators, IT/network managers and learning technologists, learning and teaching development units.
A primary aim of the publication is to explore how technology can enhance assessment and feedback in the light of recent National Student Survey findings, improving effectiveness as well as efficiency by means of:
- changing the dynamics of learning and assessment to improve the validity and quality of assessment practices in UK HE and FE
- engaging learners in the process of assessment
- overcoming barriers of distance and time
- supporting, supplementing and extending opportunities for formative assessment and feedback
- transforming underperforming or unsuccessful aspects of the curriculum
- supporting different pedagogic objectives and approaches
The publication will be supplemented by resources on the web to help users introduce change into their institution, or transform their own practice – for example, planning tools, video clips, full length case studies for deeper evaluation of methods and outcomes. An important secondary aim of the guide is to provide support to practitioners and curriculum teams in embedding change.
In the 3 years since the publication of Effective Practice with e-Assessment, there has been greater understanding of how 21st century learners and practitioners use technologies to achieve learning and teaching objectives and how learning and assessment can be made more learner-focused and coherent. Studies funded by JISC have been at the forefront of research into how practitioners design learning, how learners use technologies in their learning and how institutions can improve the effectiveness and quality of their educational and administrative processes. The new publication will thus incorporate key messages from the JISC e-Learning and Institutional Innovations programmes, as well as other key sources such as the REAP project.
Content
Effective Assessment in a Digital Age will consist of both theoretical and contextual elements and will be illustrated by case studies and supplemented by downloadable resources from the JISC website. The case studies are being newly researched and will encompass a wide range of technologies now used to support assessment and feedback, from VLEs and e-portfolio tools to Web 2.0 technologies and multimedia.
It is also proposed that a small number are developed into video clips to meet the needs of staff developers running training events. A range of expert voices will also be captured as video clips to provide insights into the broader impact of the practice on learning and teaching and on learner experience of assessment.
This guide will launch in September 2010
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